During the succeeding week the entire army of the foe was allowed to
land in England, and were immediately victorious. The contract for
finding them lodgings in London made somebody's fortune. Within a week
England was grovelling in the dust at the feet of her conquerors.

"And are you surprised?" asked a journalist, addressing the greatest
tactician of the century.

"Surprised!" he echoed--"why it was what we all expected from the
first!"

* * * * *

NEW RIDDLE (WITH THE OLD ANSWER).--Where was ISAACS when the
Balance-Sheet went out?

* * * * *

THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS.

NO. II.

SCENE--_Courtyard of the "Grand Hôtel du Lion Belgique et
d'Albion," at Brussels. It is just after Table d'hôte;
PODBURY and CULCHARD are sitting on a covered terrace, with
coffee._

_Podbury_ (_producing a pipe_). Not such a bad dinner! Expect they'll
rook us a lot for it, though. Rather fun, seeing the waiters all troop